According to Roberts, there is something else to consider when it comes to our ability to maintain relationships beyond our cognitive limits, and that is the time and effort required to do so. Quote if someone told you they had 50 really close friends, you probably wouldn't believe them because there's just some intuitive sense that maintaining these close friends requires a degree of effort in communicating and meeting up that is limited by time. End quote
Rocío (Ro) Christensen
@rocio · 0:45
And I think the example that you said of if somebody said that they had 50 friends, you kind of wouldn't really believe them, like 50 close friends. So that's really interesting. I've never heard of this theory, and but it but it sounds very true. I believe it